المؤلفون: KOLEY, Abhijit, BANDYOPADHYAY, Nita

المصدر: International Journal of Disabilities Sports & Health Sciences; Jan2024, Vol. 7 Issue 1, p51-65, 15p

مصطلحات موضوعية: PHYSICAL fitness for middle-aged women, PHYSICAL fitness for middle-aged persons, PHYSICAL fitness for women, SPORTS sciences

مصطلحات جغرافية: INDIA

مستخلص: Proper measuring tools can provide the exact information about an individual's fitness level. The purpose of the study was to construct a suitable physical fitness test battery and to develop norms for middle-aged women in the Indian population. A total number of 405 middle-aged Indian women of 40-59 years were selected from three basic occupations of homemaking, office job, and manual labor. They were divided into two groups 40-49 years (n=230) and 50-59 years (n=175). The selected physical fitness variables for the construction of the physical fitness test battery were strength, strength endurance, agility, flexibility, balance, coordination, gait velocity, and cardiovascular endurance, which were measured by the standard and valid tests such as hand grip dynamometer, wall squat test, figure of eight-run test, sit and reach test, one leg stand test, plate tape test, and 6 min walk test respectively. Descriptive statistics, normality of the data, Pearson product-moment correlation, and Percentile score were calculated by SPSS version 21. Cajori's 5-grade evaluation norms were applied. The External validity of the newly constructed test battery was examined by using Eviews software version 9. Results revealed that the obtained data was normal and the selected variables were highly correlated. The Percentile scale revealed that the score from P0 -P100 for each variable for both the groups and grading was expressed in five grades such as excellent, good, average, below average, and poor. External validity confirmed the validity of the physical fitness test battery for middle-aged women across the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Glapka, Ewa¹

المصدر: Women's Studies in Communication. May2022, Vol. 45 Issue 2, p163-186. 24p.

مصطلحات موضوعية: *PHYSICAL fitness for women, *POSTFEMINISM, *DISCOURSE analysis, *AFFECT (Psychology), *EXERCISE, *DISCURSIVE psychology, *INTERSECTIONALITY

مستخلص: This article presents an intersectional qualitative analysis of how young South African women of different racial identities relate to their bodies while talking about their fitness practices. The analysis addresses the debate on women's aesthetic (self-)objectification, which is commonly considered as manifest in their workout routines. In a study of interview data, the routines are approached via critical discursive psychology and discursive psychology of affect. The study investigates the role of affect in positioning oneself as the subject of fitness practices. Examining the relationship between the lived and ideological aspects of participants' workouts, the article finds that the surveillance of women's bodies is negotiated as more than a "choice" to be the self-disciplined agent of one's bodywork. The analysis explores these negotiations in terms of the distinction between living one's body as an evaluated surface or as a sensing flesh. Discussing the findings, the article explains how discourse analysis refines an understanding of the role of fitness in embodying femininity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

المصدر: Education gazette (2020), 29 Jan 2024; v.103 n.1:p.24-27
Tukutuku kōrero

الوصول الحر: https://gazette.education.govt.nz/articles/breaking-barriers-in-health-and-menstruationTest/
https://issuu.com/edgazette/docs/education_gazette_103.1Test
https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE90446537Test

المؤلفون: Salin, Kasper, Kankaanpää, Anna, Xiaolin Yang, Tammelin, Tuija H., Magnussen, Costan G., Telama, Risto, Hutri-Kähönen, Nina, Viikari, Jorma S. A., Raitakari, Olli T., Hirvensalo, Mirja

المصدر: Journal of Physical Activity & Health; Feb2021, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p199-205, 7p, 3 Charts

مصطلحات موضوعية: PHYSICAL fitness for men, PHYSICAL fitness for women, PHYSICAL activity, PHYSICAL fitness & psychology, MARITAL status

مستخلص: Background: To examine if major life changes over a 4-year period among 34- to 49-year-old adults (mean = 41.8, SD = 5.0) were associated with a change in physical activity in men (37.7%) and women (62.3%). Methods: Daily steps and aerobic steps (steps that lasted for at least 10 min without interruption at a pace of >60 steps/min) were collected from 1051 participants in 2007 and 2011. Changes in marital status, work status, and residence and the birth of a child were determined from both time points. A latent change score model was used to examine mean changes in daily total steps, aerobic steps, and nonaerobic steps (total steps minus aerobic steps). Results: Women who had a first child in the 4-year period had a decrease in their nonaerobic steps (P = .001). Men who divorced in the 4-year period had a decrease in their nonaerobic steps (P = .020), whereas women who recoupled decreased their total steps (P = .030). Conclusions: Counseling for parents having a first child on how to increase physical activity in their everyday life could potentially have an influence on an individual's physical activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Campos, Priscila Figueiredo¹ (AUTHOR) priscilaefi@yahoo.com.br, Almeida, Maurício¹ (AUTHOR), Neves, Clara Mockdece¹ (AUTHOR), Rodgers, Rachel F.^2,3 (AUTHOR), Ferreira, Maria Elisa Caputo⁴ (AUTHOR), de Carvalho, Pedro Henrique Berbert^1,5 (AUTHOR)

المصدر: Sex Roles. Sep2021, Vol. 85 Issue 5/6, p313-325. 13p. 2 Charts.

مصطلحات موضوعية: *PHYSICAL fitness for women, *BODY image, *PERSONAL beauty, *AESTHETICS, *MUSCLES, *BODY weight, *MEASUREMENT

مصطلحات جغرافية: BRAZIL

مستخلص: The female appearance ideal has undergone considerable changes in recent years, resulting in increases in drive for muscularity among Brazilian women. The Female Muscularity Scale (FMS) was developed to assess muscularity concerns among U.S. women and was shown to be a promising measure of muscularity-related attitudes and behaviors. The present studies aimed to translate and culturally adapt the FMS to Brazilian Portuguese and to explore its factorial structure among Brazilian women (Study 1: n = 202, Mage = 24.40, SD = 5.03) and to confirm the factor structure as well as evaluate convergent and divergent validity and reliability of the FMS for young adult Brazilian women (Study 2: n = 382, Mage = 22.71, SD = 4.32). Exploratory factor analysis revealed a two-factor structure (Attitudes and Behaviors subscales), each comprising five items. Confirmatory factor analysis upheld the original two-factor structure with good fit indices. The full scale and its subscales presented convergent validity through associations with measures of body dissatisfaction, drive for muscularity, body-ideal internalization, body checking and avoidance behaviors, disordered eating, and exercise engagement. Evidence of divergent validity was obtained in relation to self-esteem and depressive symptoms. The Brazilian version of FMS also presented adequate values for internal consistency and 2-week test-retest reliability. These findings support the Brazilian version of the FMS as a useful tool for investigating muscularity-related aspects of body image and body change behaviors that are increasingly a source of concern for women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

العنوان البديل: Ejercicio físico y gimnasia femeninos en Uruguay: cuerpos, género y sexualidades en la formación del magisterio de educación física en los 1950s. (Spanish)

المؤلفون: Dogliotti, Paola, Quitzau, Evelise

المصدر: Historia y Memoria de la Educación; 2023, Issue 18, p145-180, 36p

مصطلحات موضوعية: PHYSICAL fitness for women, GYMNASTICS, PHYSICAL education teachers, TEACHER training

مصطلحات جغرافية: URUGUAY

الملخص (بالإنجليزية): In the 1950s, Uruguay had outstanding international recognition at an educational and cultural level and was called “the Switzerland of the Americas”. In this context, the Third Pan-American Congress of Physical Education was held in Montevideo. This article analyses three conferences on women’s gymnastics presented at the Congress by prominent Uruguayans. Their writing reveals mainstream understandings of the female sex and the effects generated by physical exercises and various forms of moving over female bodies. Although these sources do not explicitly approach LGBTQ+ people, they condemn (either directly or indirectly) forms of being feminine and masculine that were linked to homosexuality. This paper studies the most recommended bodily practices, adaptations and prohibitions prescribed for women in the mid-twentieth century. These texts were not only published by the National Commission of Physical Education (CNEF), which regulated physical education and sport at the national level; they were also integrated into the curriculum for training physical education teachers in Uruguay during that decade. This study is framed by theoretical references of sex deconstruction, Judith Butler’s critique of sex-gender binarism, and Michel Foucault’s sexuality device. Finally, it shows how medical knowledge crossed the discourse of sexuality in the field of physical education and supported the justification of the prescriptions of exercises and movements. These recommendations and prohibitions for women were based on the heteronormative sexual matrix, invalidating the existence of LGBTQ+ identities in the realm of physical education and sport. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract (Spanish): En la década del cincuenta Uruguay tenía un reconocimiento internacional destacado a nivel educativo y cultural, denominado la “Suiza de América”, en este contexto tuvo sede en Montevideo el Tercer Congreso Panamericano de Educación Física al que acudieron figuras relevantes a nivel internacional. El presente artículo analiza fundamentalmente tres conferencias relativas a la gimnasia femenina presentadas en el congreso por uruguayos que tuvieron un rol destacado a nivel nacional e internacional. Se entiende que estos textos muestran los principales sentidos en torno al sexo femenino y sus efectos en los cuerpos y modos de moverse y realizar ejercicios físicos. Se indaga sobre las prácticas corporales más recomendadas y las adaptaciones y prohibiciones que se prescribían para las mujeres en ese contexto. Si bien estas fuentes no abordan explícitamente la visión de LGBTQ+ people, directa e indirectamente condenan formas de ser femenino y masculino ligadas a la homosexualidad (lesbianas y gays). Estos textos además de ser publicados por la Comisión Nacional de Educación Física (CNEF) que regulaba la educación física y el deporte a nivel nacional, formaron parte del currículum de la formación de las y los profesores de educación física en el Uruguay en esa década. Para este estudio se parte de los referenciales teóricos de la deconstrucción del sexo, y la crítica al binarismo sexo-género de Judth Butler y del dispositivo de la sexualidad de Michel Foucault. Se muestra como el saber médico atravesó al discurso de la sexualidad en el campo de la educación física y estaba en la base de la justificación de las prescripciones de ejercicios y movimientos recomendados y prohibidos para las mujeres a partir de la matriz sexual heteronormativa, no habilitando la existencia de otras identidades LGBTQ+. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: MAZZIOTTA, JULIE

المصدر: People. 1/10/2022, Vol. 97 Issue 2, p66-71. 6p. 10 Color Photographs.

مصطلحات موضوعية: *WOMEN'S health, *PHYSICAL fitness for women, *WEIGHT loss, *REDUCING diets, *FOOD habits, *WOMEN'S nutrition, *STRENGTH training

People: LEAVER, Penny

مستخلص: The article discusses the health and physical fitness efforts of several women to achieve weight loss. Topics explored include the One One One diet technique tried by Jeannette Asbury of Montana, the poor health condition of Penny Leaver of Texas before she committed to healthy eating, and the way Emily Gonzales of California progressed from walking to strength training.

المؤلفون: Aspan, Maria

المصدر: Inc.. Mar/Apr2019, Vol. 41 Issue 1, p84-94. 11p. 7 Color Photographs.

مصطلحات موضوعية: *PHYSICAL fitness centers, PHYSICAL fitness for women, SAUDI Arabia-United States relations

People: MAANAVI, Jennifer Vaughan, BECKER, Tanya, KHASHOGGI, Jamal, 1958-2018

مستخلص: The article focuses on the opening of the Physique 57 fitness studio in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by co-founders Jennifer Vaughan Maanavi and Tanya Becker. Topics include the opening of the said studio despite some U.S. businesses distancing themselves from the region following the assassination of "Washington Post" columnist Jamal Khashoggi, the Vision 2030 of the Saudi government which permits licenses to women-only gyms, and the challenges on training women who will teach classes at the studio.

المؤلفون: Engeln, Renee, Shavlik, Margaret, Daly, Colleen

المصدر: Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology; Dec2018, Vol. 12 Issue 4, p508-524, 17p

مصطلحات موضوعية: PHYSICAL fitness for women, PERSONAL trainers, BODY image, EATING disorders, MOOD (Psychology)

مستخلص: Two-hundred and three college women participated in a 16-minute strength and conditioning group fitness class. Participants were randomly assigned to a class that featured either appearance-focused motivational comments by the instructor (e.g., "Blast that cellulite!") or function-focused comments (e.g., "Think of how strong you are getting!"). Body satisfaction from pre-test to post-test increased overall, but those in the function-focused (as opposed to appearance-focused) condition experienced a significantly greater increase in body satisfaction. A similar pattern was observed for positive affect. Additionally, those in the function-focused condition described the class in more positive terms and reported experiencing less body surveillance during the class. These findings are consistent with research suggesting that exercise can improve mood and body satisfaction, but also suggest that a more function-focused class can lead to even greater improvements. The motivational comments fitness instructors use may have a notable impact on women's mood, body satisfaction, and body surveillance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Hertzog, Esther, Hertzog, Esther, הרצוג, אסתר, Lev, Asaf, לב, אסף

المساهمون: Lev, Asaf

المصدر: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 48,6 (2019) 836-866

مصطلحات موضوعية: Male domination (Social structure) -- Israel, Physical fitness centers -- Israel, Physical fitness for women

الوصول الحر: https://uli.nli.org.il/discovery/search?query=issn,exact,0891-2416&tab=LibraryCatalog&search_scope=MyInstitution&vid=972NNL_ULI_C:MAINTest